What is the squadron good for?

I will have the 40 beat tomorrow. So I guess promotion time.
I know the capacity of seals goes up but other than that what else are the squadrons for?
And if there are things to do with them what have you found to be the best use?

Abso-lutely no-thing! Say it again!

The quests after 40 give you items that, depending on your viewpoint, are either useless or very useful. The rewards are xp boosts for crafting/gathering, GC seals boosts, and some similar stuff. There are people who are stockpiling leveling boosts for 4.0 already.

Y'all need Chemistries. Good Chemistries can give you scrips, materia, lots of stuff!

How many points in stats do they gain again when they level up? I'm off for 10 points in one stat or two and it's tricky to use the Training method as it increases and decreases stats from 20 - 40 and I would prefer different levels of the training so I can adjust the stats I need when you cap out the Stat Gauge for training.

I think I'll get it done this week, but waiting 18 hours then the plus 3 hours of training. Well it's a "wait game" really, but I hope they improve Squadrons in the future it's so lackluster and dis-engaging at the time.

Depending on the Affinities you develop on the members, they can bring you materias and scrips. Beyond that it's expected they will be more useful with new features in future patches.

I would agree on useless up until you reach rank 3. Then they are wonderful since chemistries change to:

chance to get dps,crafting,gathering IV materia,clusters(never got above 10),gc seals,crafter or gathering scrips (least i got were about 200 and max 600 and all blue).

Rank 3 weekly missions give you 5x scrolls for: sb,a wonderful 2-hour +20xp buff for crafting-gathering, +15% more gc seals from fates(not tested for lvling roulette) and many more.

My goal is to get the best chemistries out there so if affinity is at maximum i can 100% get the respective rewards from each member.

Note: The good chemistries seem to appear only after completing rank 3 missions. I never get smth good from the previous ranks.

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Originally Posted by dragonseth07

Y'all need Chemistries. Good Chemistries can give you scrips, materia, lots of stuff!

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Have to agree here, i never get crafting scripts but with the squadron i have received some :)

Gil, blue scrips (both types), grade IV materia, GC seals, MGP & useful buffs... Just to mention some of the things I've obtained so far.

Finally cleared the Lv40 Mission and now I'm First Lieutenant of my GC! Thank goodness took a while and it was thanks to a 1 Tank and 3 DPS combo I manage to get it with some leveling.

Honestly this is kinda boring. Only did it for the promotion. Kinda wish there was more to it and I hope that the Squadrons can come with us on our dungeon runs in the future.

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Originally Posted by VirusChris

<snip>. Kinda wish there was more to it and I hope that the Squadrons can come with us on our dungeon runs in the future.

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I wish we could bring them to PotD :D

I haven't really tried getting chemistry on my squadron members because I prefer to level all to 50 with just the standard comprehensive training sessions before retrying any 18 hour ones. That and if I'm doing my daily tasks, I'm often teleporting to Idyllshire to spend tomestones and only come back to Limsa to trade in gear for seals.

Given I don't know how to craft efficiently for life nor money despite having all at 60 from provisioning trade ins, being able to earn crafting scrips to use towards master books from Rowena's shop sounds like a good reason to put more time into getting chemistries.